The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-12-17
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL ooNvENr1oN
An Address to the Republican Voters Of
the United States.

The following COLL and address was issued by
Washington last week:
The Republican Electors of the United States -
In accordance with usage and obedient to the in
structons of the Republican National Convention
of 1884, national convention of delegated repre-
sentatives of the Republican party will be held in
the city of Chicago, ILL.,, Tuesday, the 10th day
of June, 1885, at twelve o'clock noon, for the pur-
pose of nominating candidates for president and
vice-presdent to be supported at the next nation
al election, and for the transaction of such other
business as may be there presented.
The Republican electors in the several states,
and voters without regard to past political afilia-
ton differences or action, who believe in the Ameri
principle of protective tariff for tho defense
and development Of home industries and the ele-
walton of homo labor who would reduce the a.
tional taxes and prevent the accumulation of the
surplus in the Treasury in harmony With this prin-
ciple; who are opposed to the attempt now more
openly avowed than ever before to establish policy
which would strike down American abor to the
level of the under-paid and oppressed workers of
foreign lands; who favor a system If naval and
coast defenoes which will enable the United States
to conduct its international negotiations with self
respect; who gratefully cherish the defenders Of
the country; who condemn and resent the contin-
ued and unjust exclusion of rapidJ-growing ter
ritories, which have an indisputatie title to ad-
mission into the sisterhood of states; who are in
favor of free schools and popular education, free
and honest ballot and fair count, the protection
of every citizen of the United States in his legal
rights at home and abroad; foreign policy that
shall extend our trade and commerce to every land
and CLINE, and shall properly support the dignity
of the nation and the promotion of friendly and
harmonious relations and intercourse between all
the staes cordially invited to unite under this
call in the formation of a national ticket.
LARGE and for each Al sstss
delegates, and each congressional district, each
territory and the District of Columbia to two dele
gates.
The delegates at large shall be chosen by popu-
lar state conventions called not less than twen
ty days published notice, and not less than thirty
days before the meeting of the national conven-
ton. The congressional district delegates shall
be chosen in the same manner as the nomination
of Der of Congress is made in said districts.
The territorial delegates shall be chosen in the
same manner as the nomination of delegates in
Congress is made. The delegates from the Dis
trict of Columbia shall be chosen at q convention
constituted of members elected in primary district
assemblies held under the call and direction of the
Republican Central Committee of said district.
An alternate delegate for each delegate in the ma
tional convention, to act in of the absence of
the delegate, shall be elected in the same manner
and at the same time as the delegate is elected.
All notices of contests must be filed with the
National Committee in writing, accompanied BY
printed statements of the grounds of contests
which shall be made public. Preference in the
order of hearing and determining contests will be
given by the convention in accordance with the
dates of filing of such notices and statements with
the National Committee.
[Signed.] B. F. JONES, Chairman.